Arrest warrant issued vs Abnoynoy ally and ex-Isabela Governor Grace Padaca

[_Bahay_Kubo_]

Arrest warrant vs Grace Padaca
BY RAPPLER.COM
Posted on 05/23/2012 5:11 PM | Updated 05/23/2012 5:14 PM


MANILA, Philippines - Former Isabela Gov Ma. Gracia Cielo M. Padaca is facing arrest in connection with pending charges of graft and malversation of public funds filed by the Office of the Ombudsman with the Sandiganbayan.

Associate Justice Roland B. Jurado, chairman of the court's fifth division, signed the warrant late Monday, May 21, and set her bail bond at P40,000 for malversation and P30,000 for the graft case.

Copies of the arrest order will be given to the National Bureau of Investigation-Region 2 Office, the Isabela provincial police commander and the Ilagan, Isabela police chief.

Padaca had sought deferment of the issuance of the warrant as she challenged the basis for the indictments, but this was opposed by prosecutors Omar Sagadal and Beda A. Epres.

Padaca was accused of giving undue advantage to the Economic Development for Western Isabela and Northern Luzon Foundation Inc. (EDWINLFI), a non-government organization tapped to manage a credit facility for Isabela’s rice farmers under a hybrid seed distribution program.

The NGO was entrusted the sum of P25-M which was part of a loan drawn by the provincial government from the Development Bank of the Philippines. This was by virtue of a memorandum of agreement signed in January 2006.

Prosecutors questioned the failure of defendants to conduct a public bidding when the transaction was in the nature of a management or consultancy a contract. They noted the absence of any provision for safeguards on the amount entrusted to the NGO.

In a report issued by the Commission on Audit, government auditors said EDWINLFI failed to liquidate P3.6-M under "due from NGOs/POs" and another P18-M under "loans receivables."

[MadamGloria]

Sho young but sho corrupt. Hmmp.

[_Bahay_Kubo_]

eh 'di ba hindi daw corrupt ang mga Dilaw na katulad nina Abnoynoy at Padaca? eh ano ito? may paiyak-iyak pang nalalaman ang p-tang inang Padaca na yan nung pinagalitan si Liar Keh. PWEH!

[MadamGloria]

Shi Padaca ba at si Keh? Shila na ba?

[shintaro76]

eh 'di ba hindi daw corrupt ang mga Dilaw na katulad nina Abnoynoy at Padaca? eh ano ito? may paiyak-iyak pang nalalaman ang p-tang inang Padaca na yan nung pinagalitan si Liar Keh. PWEH!

Anak ng put@, akala ko walang bahid itong Padaca na ito (siya yung nakasaklay, di ba?). Baka naman siya ang sacrificial lamb dahil nga may image sya na hindi corrupt.

[MissFugliness]

eto na ba yun daan matuwid?

[starczamora]

Starting them young I guess.

[SeraphicVision]

Parang ginagamit ni Padaca ang kanyang kapansanan para kaawaan.

[bier_trinker]

Naku, baka magpa-interview na naman siya sa Rappler tapos mag-iiyak parang yung ginawa niya kay Harvey Keh. Huhuhuhu. Iyak ka na lang ulit. Baka sakali mag-work pero malamang hindi.

[guessst]

too bad separate ang judiciary at executive wala na malamang magagawa si peanoy jan except to give 70k to pay for her bail.hehe... pero yung dalawang prosecutors under sila ng doj diba? so katay sila kay deliema

[nuance]

Anak ng put@, akala ko walang bahid itong Padaca na ito (siya yung nakasaklay, di ba?). Baka naman siya ang sacrificial lamb dahil nga may image sya na hindi corrupt.

Nakow lahat ng taga Isabela alam na na kurakot yan.Sinusuka na nga yan **. Yumaman pamilya nyan mag mula ng manalo Gov. Me chika pa nga ** na npa daw yan at tinakot mga tao nakatira sa liblib na lugar kaya nanalo yan ng 2nd term nya.

[Cutie_Chabelita]

My, you guys are really unbelievable. Not a long time ago, you guys are ranting that the Aquino administration's fight against corruption only focuses against those of cohorts of Gloria Arroyo. Now your wish was granted. A case was filed against a well-known ally of the President and yet you still have nothing good to say. Sala sa Init sala sa lamig as they say in Filipino. And who filed the charges again? Oh! It's none other than the Ombudswoman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the same woman who strike the nail on the Chief Justice's coffin. Perhaps acknowledgment is not easy to give at all, is it?

[cuch]

at malinis ang mga dy? bwahahahahahahaha!

[cuch]

My, you guys are really unbelievable. Not a long time ago, you guys are ranting that the Aquino administration's fight against corruption only focuses against those of cohorts of Gloria Arroyo. Now your wish was granted. A case was filed against a well-known ally of the President and yet you still have nothing good to say. Sala sa Init sala sa lamig as they say in Filipino. And who filed the charges again? Oh! It's none other than the Ombudswoman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the same woman who strike the nail on the Chief Justice's coffin. Perhaps acknowledgment is not easy to give at all, is it?

conchita filed the charges but it was the very corrupt dy family who is behind it all, it was padaca who toppled the dy family's monopoly of isabela when she beat faustino dy in the 2004 gubernatorial elections. since then the dy's never stopped looking for ways to get even.

[juantarug]

Maaring di naman talaga corrupt si Padaca. Pwedeng katangahan lang in governance when it comes to bids and awards of contracts. Nadali na siya ng mga Dy. Pero tanong ko lang, kung awarded sa ngo yung contract worth P25M for the rice program, it means dumaan sa Provincial Board tapos nakalusot? Di ko lang alam kung sino sino from what party ang majority and minority sa sanggunian.

[ylle45]

buti nga sa kanya

buti nga rin kay Delfin Lee

[jpd74]

akala siguro niya di siya kakasuhan dahil kkk siya ...

[eggman01]

Malaki-laki din siguro ang binigay na lagay ng mga Dy kay Conchita..

[b_9904]

Judicial Process

MANILA, Philippines --- Senators Teofisto L. Guingona III and Francis Pangilinan, political allies of President Benigno S. Aquino III, yesterday expressed optimism that the country’s judicial process would prove the innocence of former Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca.

Padaca is the subject of an arrest warrant issued for a criminal case by the Sandiganbayan. She is a critic of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, political enemy of President Aquino.

“I stand in solidarity with Governor Padaca in this difficult time. I am confident that the legal and judicial processes in our country will prove her innocence,’’ Guingona said.

[bier_trinker]

Ang galing naman ni Guingona at Pangilinan. Kung kaalyado, presumed innocent. Kung kalaban tulad ni Corona, presumed guilty agad.

Double standard!!